It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.

When people break off relationships, they break them both from the outside and from within. The external spoils because of circumstances, but the inner [inside] must not spoil.

The world is your lobster!

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.

I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.

Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.